Problems with dots in subboxes

[Bron Gondwana]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012, at 10:46 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Op 23-01-12 22:40, Bron Gondwana schreef:
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012, at 08:16 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> A user has a very complex IMAP box with many subboxes. He used subboxes
> >> with names with dots and spaces in it and I use a dot as IMAP
> >> seperation. But he did not have any problems, he said...
> >>
> >> But now there is a big problem. His box "overig e.d." has been renamed
> >> to "overig e" and in it is now a box "d", and in that it's empty, all
> >> messages are gone...
> >>
> >> Does somebody have an idea what can have happened?
> >>
> >> He is using Thunderbird a long time, but now he has Apple Mail and an
> >> Android Phone too, to access the mailbox.
> > 
> > Have you changed versions or configurations in that time?
> 
> Before there was no Android Phone and Apple Mail. And Thunderbird was
> updated (to a 3.1 version). I did not change Cyrus.
> 
> > I'm surprised it ever worked!
> 
> Me too,

Have you looked on disk?  Are there files in the spool at all?  If you used
to have unixhierarchysep: on there may be a overig e^d^ folder.

Bron.
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